Improvement in cotton and hay presses



S. T. MQGANLESS. Cotton and Hay Press.

emf/01 Patented June 4,1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL T. MCGANLESS, OF CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON AND HAY PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,442, dated June 4,1878; application filed May 15,1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. McGANLEss, of Cartersville, in the countyof Bartow and State of Georgia, have invented a Machine for PackingCotton, Hay, and other like substances, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention is a roller turning at the upper part of a packin g-box,having a slit through its middle for its whole length, in which is amovable bar wider than the diameter of the roller, there being at eachend of the roller a circular eccentric stationary flange-plate, in whichthe roller revolves, and in this revolution the bar is pressed againstthe flanges of the plates, and is thereby made to project out of theroller on the side opposite the pressure, and to crowd down in the boxthe substance to be packed, and in the further revolution of the rollerthe other side of the bar is pressed against the flanges, and thus thebar is reversed, and is made to project out of the roller on the otherside, and thus to carry on the packing, the objects of this inventionbeing to pack without the necessity of putting in at once all thematerial of a bale, and with the same power to pack more in the samespace, and to pack at less expense than by the ma chines now in use, andto pack in a box no larger than the intended bale.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is the box with the roller in it.Fig. 2 is the roller with the reversible bar in section.

a is the packing-box. c is the roller. 9 is the reversible bar. 0 0, ateach end of the box, is the circular eccentric flange-plate.

The machine is fed at the top of the box. The roller is turned by apower applied at its end from the outside. As the roller turns, the baris pressed against the flanges of the circular eccentric plates, andthereby is thrust out of the slit on the side of the roller opposite thepressure as far as its width exceeds the diameter of the roller, andcrowds down in the box the substance to be packed. When the substance tobe packed has thus been crowded beneath the roller the projecting partof the bar is returned, by the pressure of the flanges, to the slit, andthe other side of the bar is thrust out, and carries on the packing.

I claim as my invention- 1. The roller with the slit and reversible bar,as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The combination of the roller, bar, and eccentric flan ge-plates,substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

SAMUEL T. MGOANLESS.

Witnesses:

B. F. GODFREY, J. W. PRITCHETT.

